#Systems

Kharis Templeman 祁凱立

kharisborloff

A lot to digest in this latest piece by @ChuBailiang, but one striking thing is how consistently Chinese nationalists reduce a competition over political systems to a simple dichotomy: the

Adam Vaccaro

adamtvaccaro

MBTA board meeting today will include an update -- not a vote -- on service cut proposal. Here's some recent news about all that... The proposal was unveiled last month

Vincent Wong

InitialVW

In light of the sentencing of the Demosisto Three, I thought I would live-tweet a very urgent discussion: @usasiainstitute's event on Hong Kong's criminal justice system post-National Security Law with

Sunshiny

sunnshiiny

This embedded thread MUST be read to understand how entirely fascist the January 6, 2021 attack of the Capitol really was. Fascism is a provocative word. Many recoil at its

Ben See

ClimateBen

Scientists expect horrific global warming of 1.6-2°C by 2032, triggering the final collapse of major ecosystems, extreme crop-wrecking weather events, widespread global extinction, then more horrific warming from vicious feedbacks,

zev handel

ZevHandel

A seemingly bizarre editorial error in a Taiwanese children’s book has a lot to tell us about the history of Chinese characters as they’ve traveled from China to Japan—and back

Thomas Shugart

tshugart3

Ok, folks. The 2020 China Military Power report is out!Here are a few thoughts on some of the interesting tidbits (IMO): https://media.defense.gov/2020/Sep/01/2002488689/-1/-1/1/2020-DOD-CHINA-MILITARY-POWER-REPORT-FINAL.PDF First up: overa

Zero HP Lovecraft

0x49fa98

Right now we exist in an overly permissive environment, a hyper-feminized environment, and this degrades our ability to discern right from wrong. That’s because women don't respect laws, they only

Emily Rose ➡️ carcosa 🟡🎭

caravanmalice

weird how every person clutching physical or local copies got lambasted as overthinking it then turned out they were all right on a timescale long enough that everyone can just

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

This is a really interesting, overdue piece which makes many good points. It is somewhat flawed though.1. All countries have national stories; very, very few are ruthlessly honest with themselves

Ross Power

rosspower

This week marks 4 months since I left employment as a management consultant with @Accenture I set out to have a 'discovery & mobilisation' phase - so here's a stab

zev handel

ZevHandel

In this thread I’m going to talk about one of my favorite etymologies. The history of this word has got it all: it’s a fascinating tale of multi-lingual and multi-cultural

Clarksmas is in 43 Days

drinkpinkink

The darkest comics sometimes deserve the brightest light. If you're a site editor and your team inexplicably hasn't been covering #JohnConstantineHellblazer, email me. And if you/your team has existing JCH

Eric Roston

eroston

Peering back at 2020 before we shut the door for good (h/t @LauraMillanL for the idea).Most remarkable is how amid a once-a-century pandemic and populist assaults on democratic norms, climate

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

Some really important publications about school re-opening during a pandemic over the first few days.A thread, and some musings.PLEASE READ MY WHOLE THREAD BEFORE THROWING STONES. Let me start by

Erin Bergren

erin_bergren

I’ll be live-tweeting the #CZULightningComplex 6am press conference in this thread. Got my feeds up, got my coffee, got my cat trying to sit on the keyboard. All systems go.

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